Full-time arbitrator, associate member of Six Pump Court Chambers, James is a solicitor (admitted in 1990, non-practising since 2019) and was an avocat at the Paris bar (1994 to 2008). Former Registrar and DDG of the LCIA and Hon Secretary of the LMAA. Expertise in shipping, commodities and international commerce. Appointed in more than 50 ad hoc and institutional arbitrations since 2018.